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What really annoys me in this story is that this ZANU PF rogue will be given everything he needs to be comfortable in the UK, whilst I, born here and lived in Africa, struggle to establish any standard of life at all.
He will not be hounded by the Job Centre, threatened with removal of all manner of benefits... He will just be comfortable... and he is just a violent thug.
"A former Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) agent who admitted smashing an MDC supporter’s jaw with pliers, and then pulling out their tooth, has been granted asylum in the UK along with his wife.
The 47-year-old ex-CIO man, identified by his initials PM, was originally turned down by the Home Office which said he had "committed crimes against humanity".
But Mr Justice David Archer of the First Tier Tribunal of the Immigration and Asylum Chamber allowed his and his wife’s appeals in a judgement delivered on May 4, 2011. The Home Office is not appealing.
At the appeal hearing held in Newport in April, the Tribunal heard how PM, who joined the CIO in 1996 and quit in 2000 before fleeing to the UK, had TORTURED and KILLED President Robert Mugabe’s political opponents.
Despite finding that he was “deeply involved in savage acts of extreme violence”, the judge said deporting him to Zimbabwe would breach his rights under Articles 2 and 3 of the European Human Rights Convention.
"Those rights are absolute and whatever crimes PM has committed, he cannot be returned to face the highly likely prospect of torture and execution without trial," the judge ruled."
I am appalled that his application should even be considered! He will be given a place to live and work in the UK when he is, evidently, a pawn in Mugabe's game against the population of Zimbabwe.
Did PM afford his victims the same mercy? No.
"The former CIO operative, who admitted he was HIV positive, said he joined the spy agency in 1996. His first assignment was as a bodyguard to the late cabinet minister, Enos Chikowore.
PM admitted that before rallies, he would go to the homes of opposition activists and detain them without trial.
In 1999, he "tortured a person by hitting their jaw with pliers and pulling out a tooth". In the same year, he went to the house of an MDC supporter who was forced to sit naked in front of his daughters and told that if he did not provide information, he would be forced to have sex with them.
In 2000, he tortured a white farmer only identified in court as "Mr Thornhill" after hearing rumours that he was providing financial support to the MDC. Thornhill was "electrocuted, slapped, beaten and punched to the point of being unconscious".
On another occasion, PM admitted taking a female MDC member to an underground cell where she was stripped naked and tortured with whips made of hide. PM "put salt to her wounds"."
And a person like this has been granted permission to stay in the United Kingdom? It irks me that he will have the same rights as I do… despite his deadly and violent past…
Robb WJ Ellis
The Bearded Man
